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Concentrates, or cannabis concentrates, are potent extracts that capture cannabinoids and terpenes in compact form. These oils, waxes, and extracts are made for dabs or compatible vaporizers, delivering bold flavor and fast effects with small amounts of product.
Cannabis concentrates are highly potent products made by extracting THC, CBD, and terpenes from cannabis flower. The category includes live rosin, live resin, hash, kief, shatter, badder, sauce, and distillate. Concentrates typically test between 60 and 95 percent THC, far higher than flower's 15 to 30 percent. They're consumed using a dab rig, an electronic dab pen, a concentrate vaporizer, or by adding them to flower in joints and bowls for a more intense session. Live rosin and live resin are popular among shoppers who want a full-spectrum experience with preserved terpenes, while distillate is favored for its purity and potency. Learn more about cannabinoids and different ways to consume cannabis.
Our concentrate selection at the Cobble Hill store covers everything from solventless live rosin made from fresh-frozen flower to budget-friendly distillate, with options from top New York extractors and trusted national brands. Brooklyn residents from Park Slope to Boerum Hill stop in for dabs, add-ons for infused joints, and concentrate-rich vape carts. Each product lists the strain, extraction method, and THC percentage on the shelf, and budtenders can walk you through the differences in flavor, potency, and consumption method. Want something else? Browse our flower, pre-rolls, or vape collections.
What's the difference between live rosin and live resin?
Live rosin is solventless, meaning it's made using only heat and pressure to pull cannabinoids and terpenes out of fresh-frozen flower, no chemicals involved. Live resin also starts from fresh-frozen flower to preserve those same terpenes, but the extraction relies on solvents like butane or propane along the way. Both are prized for full-spectrum flavor and effect, though some longtime concentrate fans lean toward rosin specifically for its solventless process. Our Cobble Hill concentrate selection carries both, and budtenders can walk you through how each smokes and tastes side by side.
What should I look for when choosing a concentrate vaporizer?
Look for a device built specifically for concentrates rather than a dry herb vaporizer, since the heating element and chamber are designed differently for oils and waxes versus flower. Temperature control matters too: lower settings tend to preserve more flavor, while higher settings favor bigger vapor production. If you're new to this format, our vaporizer collection has more approachable options, and a budtender can help match a device to the specific concentrate you're planning to use.
What's the difference between wax, shatter, badder, and sauce?
These are mostly different textures of the same basic extract, shaped by how they're processed and whipped after extraction. Shatter is hard and glass-like, wax is soft and opaque, badder has a cake-batter consistency from being whipped during processing, and sauce is a looser, often terpene-rich concentrate with visible crystals sitting in liquid terpenes. None is objectively better, they just handle differently on a dab tool and can vary in flavor intensity. Our budtenders can point you toward whichever texture fits how you like to consume.
Why are concentrates more expensive than flower?
Concentrates take more raw flower and more labor to produce a small amount of product, since it can take several grams of flower to extract just one gram of concentrate. Add in the equipment, time, and skill required for a clean extraction, especially for solventless methods like live rosin, and that cost adds up. What you're paying for is a lot more potency and flavor packed into a smaller amount, so it often works out to a similar cost per session compared to flower.
Is solventless hash rosin worth it?
For a lot of concentrate fans, yes. Solventless rosin skips chemical solvents entirely, relying only on heat and pressure, which some people prefer for both the process and the resulting flavor. It's usually priced higher than solvent-based concentrates like live resin or distillate, reflecting the extra time and flower it takes to produce. If flavor and a cleaner extraction process matter to you, it's worth trying. If you're mainly chasing potency on a budget, distillate might be the more practical pick.
Do dabs smell as much as smoking flower?
Dabbing produces a strong smell in the moment, often more concentrated than flower since you're vaporizing a much more potent product, but it clears the air faster since there's no ongoing combustion or ash. If discretion is the priority, a vape cartridge will run noticeably quieter on smell than a dab rig.
What's distillate and how is it different from other concentrates?
Distillate is a highly refined concentrate, processed to isolate THC (or CBD) at very high purity, often with most of the natural terpenes stripped out along the way. That makes it less flavorful than live rosin or live resin, but it's also more affordable and shows up in a lot of vape carts and edibles because of its consistency and potency. If you want pure potency without paying for terpene preservation, distillate is usually the more budget-friendly choice in our concentrate selection.
